Window-shade fixture



(N0 Model.)

0. H. CLOSE.

, WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE.

No. 436,121. Patented Sept.9, 1890. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. CLOSE, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

WIN DOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,121, dated September 9, 1890.

Application filed April 29,1889. Serial No. 309,044. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. Cross, of 'Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Window-Shade Fixtures; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,

- to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a top or plan view of the bracket and roll; and Fig. 2, a front View of the bracket, the roll removed.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for supporting window-shades such as are adapted to be wound upon a roller, the fixtures being adapted to shades and screens, and therefore not understood to be limited to window-shades alone.

The object of the invention is the construction of a bracket to support the bearings for the roll; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described,

and particularly recited in the claim.

The bracket is made in two parts A B. These parts are made from wire, and are adapted to be attached to any point where the shade is to be applied. The bracket carries an arm 0 at one end and a like arm D at the opposite end, which forin bearings for the support of the shade-roll F, each hearing itself being adapted to the pivots of the roll. The roll may be a spring-roll or cord-roll or any. of the usual constructions, the mechanism of the roll itself, whereby the shade is Wound onto the roll, being immaterial to this invention. The two parts of the bracket are together of greater length than the entire length of the bracket required, and so that the two parts may overlap each other at the inner ends. The part A is made with two parallel branches at a, and the part B is made with two corresponding parallel branches 1) b. The branches at terminate at their ends in eyes 0 0, through which the branches 1) b pass, and the branches 1) b terminate in eyes cl (1, through which the branches a pass, and so that the parts may slide one upon the other to contract or expand the length of the bracket, as the case may be, and as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2. Preferably a metal other in a brace-like shape to strengthen the brackets.

The bracket thus constructed is very strong, is easily applied, and readily adjusted to rolls of difierent lengths.

The arms 0 D may be arranged to slide on their respective parts of the bracket, that portion of the bracket on which they are arranged being formed so that the two wirescome substantially parallel with each other, as seen in Fig. 2, the bracket closed around the said parallel portions, so as to slide thereon;

, but this adjustment is not necessary.

The roll is arranged in its bearings in the usual manner after or before the bracket shall have been secured to its place, as may be desirable, the bracket being adjusted to give the required distance between the bearings to receive the roll.

I am aware that a shade-bracket has been made from wire in two lengths, the lengths united by an eye formed in the end of each part surrounding the other, and so that one part will slip upon the other, making but a single run of wire for the length of the bracket. a bracket made from wire and made thus extensible, the essential feature of my invention beingin making the bracket of two runs of wire, each run made in two parts, the two parts of each run coupled together, so as to slide one upon the other, the two runs bent so as to produce a trussing effect and whereby intermediate supports between the ends are avoided.

I claim- A bracket for window-shade rollers made in two parts A B, the one part A composed of two branches terminating at their outer I therefore do not claim, broadly,

ends in a securingeye and at their inner ends said parallel portions bent obliquely in oppofirst part, the inner end of each of the site directions and obliquely returned, the branches of each part terminating in an eye 10 said oblique bends of the two parts crossing surrounding the corresponding branch of the each other, the other part composed of two other part, substantially asdescribed.

5 branches having parallel portions b b at their I CHAS. H. CLOSE.

inner end, and, like the first part, terminating Witnesses: in an eye at their outer end, the said branches NELSON GUNNISON,

obliquely bent to cross each other, as in the JOANNA CLOSE. 

